2.5
A Bell For Adano
by John Hersey
Product Description
A BELL FOR ADANO was John Hersey's first novel and won a Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of an Italian village during WW II, liberated by American forces and then administered by them. The story fits the traditional view Americans take of themselves--tough hombres, but with hearts of gold.
If this book is reminiscent of times past, it nevertheless holds up to us the ideal that our fighting men have carried with them into battle through most of the history of this nation.
From the Publisher
8 1-hour cassettes
A BELL FOR ADANO was John Hersey's first novel and won a Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of an Italian village during WW II, liberated by American forces and then administered by them. The story fits the traditional view Americans take of themselves--tough hombres, but with hearts of gold.
If this book is reminiscent of times past, it nevertheless holds up to us the ideal that our fighting men have carried with them into battle through most of the history of this nation.
From the Publisher
8 1-hour cassettes
Literature & FictionClassics
RELEASED1981
PUBLISHERBooks on Tape, Inc.
LANGUAGEEN
John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, the son of missionaries. He returned to the United States with his family at the age of ten. He attended the Hotchkiss School, then Yale University, then Cambridge University. In 1937 he worked as a secretary for Sinclair Lewis, and that fall he got a position at Time magazine. Two years later he was transferred to Time's Chongqing bureau. During World War II he reported on the war in both Europe and Asia, writing articles for Time, Life, and The New Yorker. His published several books during this time, including *Men on Bataan*, *Into the Valley*, *A Bell for Adano* (which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945), and *Hiroshima*, his most famous work (originally published in The New Yorker). He also wrote *The Wall* (1950) about the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Hersey was the head of Pierson College at Yale University from 1965-1970, and he taught writing at the undergraduate level there.
2.5
A Bell For Adano
by John Hersey
Product Description
A BELL FOR ADANO was John Hersey's first novel and won a Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of an Italian village during WW II, liberated by American forces and then administered by them. The story fits the traditional view Americans take of themselves--tough hombres, but with hearts of gold.
If this book is reminiscent of times past, it nevertheless holds up to us the ideal that our fighting men have carried with them into battle through most of the history of this nation.
From the Publisher
8 1-hour cassettes
A BELL FOR ADANO was John Hersey's first novel and won a Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of an Italian village during WW II, liberated by American forces and then administered by them. The story fits the traditional view Americans take of themselves--tough hombres, but with hearts of gold.
If this book is reminiscent of times past, it nevertheless holds up to us the ideal that our fighting men have carried with them into battle through most of the history of this nation.
From the Publisher
8 1-hour cassettes
Literature & FictionClassics
RELEASED1981
PUBLISHERBooks on Tape, Inc.
LANGUAGEEN
John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, the son of missionaries. He returned to the United States with his family at the age of ten. He attended the Hotchkiss School, then Yale University, then Cambridge University. In 1937 he worked as a secretary for Sinclair Lewis, and that fall he got a position at Time magazine. Two years later he was transferred to Time's Chongqing bureau. During World War II he reported on the war in both Europe and Asia, writing articles for Time, Life, and The New Yorker. His published several books during this time, including *Men on Bataan*, *Into the Valley*, *A Bell for Adano* (which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945), and *Hiroshima*, his most famous work (originally published in The New Yorker). He also wrote *The Wall* (1950) about the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Hersey was the head of Pierson College at Yale University from 1965-1970, and he taught writing at the undergraduate level there.
